Lovescape Novels, an art
project exploring the wide 'invisible world' of the landscape of love in which
unfolds the light of civilization

Winning
without Victory

Room 4

Volume 3 of the series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose,
a literary art
project exploring the wide landscape of love
by Rolf A. F. Witzsche

Painting a living garden of
the
invisible shapes
that
shape
us

The
Royal Dance for ending the war
of empire versus civilization

The exploration in this room of the gallery of the
invisible shapes that shape us in the landscape of love is centered on a
potential nuclear holocaust that is narrowly avoided by everyone letting
their light shine in a process that continues all the way through..

The sequence of the vistas begins with those small
love-games that we play, which tend to be rather inconsequential in the
world at large, but which matter to us individually. Nevertheless we don't live
isolated from the world, and as the circles of our love expand our love becomes modulated
by the larger ripples that flow in the world that we must interact with. And
there times, suddenly, when one's love is put to the test as the fate of
all mankind might depend on its
strength. Will the resulting imperative supersede
the imperatives of our small personal strands of love? Sometimes a person has the
option to choose, but often there is never a real choice involved when the
scene becomes wide and the consequences global.

Also there are times when the critical choices are
made by others for us, when great evils must be stopped and one is demanded
to do this without fail or else it
won't be stopped at all and the price is paid by millions and by future
generations.

This is not a hypothetical issue. In most cases in history the
great opportunities were sadly left unrealized and the evils that should have
ended right then, were allowed to continue so that in their wake entire
nations, even continents were wasted. It takes a great love if one is to reach into
the future. However, a still greater love is needed when the future is a long way
off and the opposition against such love is unfolding strongly with death-threats
happening in the background determined to break that love?

In such times of the greatest demands the small and precious sparkles in the
intimate domain can become a resource for the larger light that cannot be allowed
to dim. The same seems to happen also in reverse, so that the big achievements
in love uplift the intimacy of it in the small. There are many such
vistas threaded through the scenes of this rather large novel, some of which
unfolds in Venice at the heart of the fondi empire, and some of that
unfolds in
the darkest of nights.

In the end, though, step by step the
world becomes a brighter place. The vistas of love become a rare light and
with that light civilization becomes somewhat richer even if the
ultimate victory remains still a long way off.

The tectonics of empires are shifting.
The plates of power are overlaying other powers.
The plates of force are grinding down civilizations.
Those are plates of omnipotence:
of empires begging for society's compliance.

War has matured: The game is now terror.
Weapons have matured: The bombs became Uranium Daisy Cutter.
Strategies have matured: The lies are now called cultural 'freedom.'
Objectives have matured: Empires are flirting with genocide.

John saw an angel, a woman clothed with the sun.
He saw in her the native image of mankind.
He saw her not covered, hidden, or embellished.
He saw in her the sun of our humanity
crowned with stars of rejoicing
engaged in the 'Royal Dance'.

Is God the Supreme Being, or is it mankind?
Is the cross of God a cross of terror and genocide?
Or is the Supreme Cross, the Cross of Love?
Do we bow in pain, or do we stand tall as builders of worlds?

Does Bizet's Carmen foreshadow the fate of humanity?
She dies at the hand of her lover who failed to privatize her love.
Humanity became privatized at Christmas in 1913, and is dying.
The challenge before us is to reverse history, and resurrect Carmen.

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of the series, The Lodging for the Rose (above)
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